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INSTRUCTOR : LYN LAVIGNE
mlavigne@fau.edu
297-4318

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding books, articles, and primary sources.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
 

• Subject searching:  Go to the "Basic Search" screen and select "Subject Heading" and type in the following Library of Congress subject headings (type in dashes for subheadings):

United States--History

United States--history--1950

• Keyword searching:  Go to the "Advanced Search" screen select "Any field" and type in your keywords.  (Example:  Eisenhower and history)

• The catalog will lists books, government documents, videos, and other materials owned by the FAU libraries.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Indexes/Databases" under the heading "Quick Links." When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the "Off Campus Connect" link for the "EZproxy" server.

SFX is extremely helpful in searching for articles that cross databases.

• ABI/INFORM Complete
  Provides access to multiple ProQuest databases including ProQuest Newspapers and Archive Complete, which contains digital images from leading business journals from 1905-1986
• America: History and Life
  Provides access to articles on topics dealing with American and Canadian history from prehistory to the present time.
• American Jewish Committee Archives
  Gives access to speeches, radio programs, articles and more from AJC's online archive. 
• American Memory  
  This database is a gateway to primary source materials about the history and culture of the United States.  
• ArchiveGrid
  Provides references to historical documents, personal papers and family histories contained in archival collections around the world. 
• Black Studies Center
  Contains information relating to Black Studies in scholarly essays, historical newspaper articles (from the Chicago Defender, Daily Defender and New York Amsterdam News) and recent periodicals. 
• Historical Abstracts
  Provides references to articles from journals about the history of the world from 1450 to the present time, except for the United States and Canada, since these articles are indexed in America: History and Life. 
• Historical New York Times
  Contains digital reproductions of the New York Times from cover to cover with a PDF quality.  Coverage begins with the first issue of 1851 to three years before the current date. 
• History Resource Center: U.S.
  Contains a vast collection of primary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and reference works covering U.S. history.
• JSTOR
  Provides access to full text articles from more than 500 scholarly journals, including many in history.
• LexisNexis Academic
  Gives access to full text articles from newspapers (including regional publications) journal articles and government documents. 
• LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection 
  This database contains a collection of U.S. government publications dealing with every aspect of American life from the 19th century onwards, which includes congressional reports and documents.
• Original Sources
  Provides access to original source documents, critical selections and acclaimed works from the U.S. and around the world. 
• Project Muse
  This is a collection of full text articles from scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social sciences.  Articles can be located by keyword searching or browsing contents of journals.
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  This database is the authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  Coverage is from 1861 with some full text dissertations from recent years.
• Visual History Archive
  Florida Atlantic University serves as a site where users can access testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.  This collection contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses in 32 languages and from 56 countries.  Archive is only accessible from FAU campuses.

OTHER IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Special Collections & Archives
The Special Collections & Archives area of the Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton Campus is a wonderful resource for finding primary sources.  Some of the primary sources that you will find in these collections include paintings, letters, maps, photographs, and much more.  For an overview of this area, click on Special Collections to access a very informative PowerPoint presentation and to find additional information.

Government Resources
The Library has a large collection of government documents in paper and in the electronic format, which can be located by searching the FAU Libraries Catalog.  Google U.S. Government Search can also be used to locate documents on the WEB.  For additional information and assistance about locating government documents, click on FAU Libraries Government Document Department. 

Primary Resources (FAU Libraries' Research Guide)
This research guide was designed by Jacquelyn Erdman to help users understand what primary sources are, how to locate them and how to cite them. 

CITING REFERENCES

• Z253.U69 2003 (Reserve) 
  Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2003.

• LB2369.T8 1996 (Reserve)
  Turabian, Kate L.  A Manual for Writer of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.  6th revised ed.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1996.
   

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